Women in Islam
After Shari’ah and Jihad – the next topic in Judeo-Christians’ list of Muslim hatred – comes women rights in Islam. The funny part of their allegations of mis-treatment of women in Islam and Muslim societies – the Judeo-Christian Bible has far more hatred towards women than someone can find in Holy Qur\’an. In Muslim societies – the mis-treatment found is purely based on their cultural background of non-Muslim societies which accepted Islam – and has nothing to do with the teachings of Holy Qur’an.
“Western critics often blame the Quran for its treatment of women, which they see as iniquitous, but in fact the emancipation of women was dear to the Prophet’s heart. There are complaints that the Quran teaches a double standard: the laws of inheritance, for example, decree that a woman can inherit only half of what her brothers (who have to provide the mahl to start a new family) will receive. Again, women are allowed to be witnesses in law, but their witness is only half as valuable as that of a man. In the context of the twentieth century – when, we should remember, we are still campaigning for equal rights for women – this Quranic legislation does seem prohibitive. But in seventh-century Arabia it was revolutionary. We must remember what life had been like for women in the pre-Islamic period when female infanticide was the norm and when women had no rights at all. Like slaves, women were treated as an inferior species, who had no legal existence. In such a primitive world, the very idea that a woman could be a witness or could inherit anything in her own right was astonishing. We must recall that in Christian Europe, women had to wait until the nineteenth century before they had anything similar: even then, the law remained heavily weighted towards men.” – Karen Armstrong (born 1944), a former Catholic Nun in ‘Muhammad: A Biography Of The Prophet’.
Islam gave the rights to women to question even the Prophet (pbuh) – and they kept that tradition during the period of the four rightful Khalifahs of Islam. Ai’sha, the Prophet’s wife was the first women to command a force of 8,000 male soldiers in the “Battle of Camels”, against the fourth Khalifah of Islam, Ali ibn Abu Talib. Many women became Islamic scholars at times when Jewish women were not allowed to their religious scriptures – “Let the words of Torah rather be destroyed by fire than imparted to women,” – ‘Judaism’ by Denise L. Carmody.
As a matter of fact – women in Islamic societies are better treated than those in Jewish, Christian, and Hindu communities. For example, women plight in backward Eastern Orthodox Church, the largest Christian communion in the world or country like Congo with 70% Christian and 10% Muslim population or Israel (where sex slavery is legalized as long as the victim is not Jewess) or Mormon fundamentalists in Utah – who believe that women are literally a property of their fathers or husbands ( an old Hebrew tradition).
The results of a poll conducted by WorldPublic Opinion.org among 16 nations in early 2008 – showed that support for women equal rights was great in Muslim nation-states; Azerbiajan (84%), Egypt (90%), Indonesia (91%), Turkey (91%), Islamic Iran (78%), and Palestinian Territories (93%).
Four Muslim countries with the largest Muslim population – Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Turkey – elected women as head of their governments, while Islamic Iran has a woman as vice-president – something Americans, French, Ausralian, and Russians still have to match. Furthermore, the US has no credibility to criticize other countries, when it comes to ratio of women in Parliament. It stands at 69th position – far behind Muslim nation-states like Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, UAE, Mauritius, and Tunisia – while Zionist entity stood at 80th position.
The universal suffrage came to the US in late 19th century, Canada in 1939 – while in Islamic Iran in 1979, five years before women in Liechtenstein got the vote. It came to Bahrain in 2002, 12 years after the Swiss Supreme Court ordered the stubborn Canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden to accept women’s suffrage. Portuguese women got the vote in 1976, and Swiss women in 1971.
According to Wall Street Journal, women with same qualification and experience – earn 22% less than men in the US. Contrary to that in Islamic Iran, equal pay is mandatory.
A study by researchers at the University of California found that women occupied only 11 percent of the seats on corporate boards in the oh-so-progressive state of California and held about one in 12 executive jobs.
Some other US statics are worth noting:
1. A woman is raped every 90 seconds.
2. There are more than seven million battered women.
3. 23% of teagers at schoos had sexual experience before turning 13.
4. 46% divorced rate.
5. More than 60% couple had sex out of marriage.
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